"Old Fu, the guy in handcuffs is… Li Weixiang?"
"It… it is!"
Watching Li Weixiang being escorted into the car, Fu Chuan and Chen Zhi sat on their motorcycles, stunned.
At this moment, Fu Chuan felt a tightness in his chest, his mind going numb.
He had just contracted the express delivery point in the female dormitory area and had paid Li Weixiang a two-thousand upfront deposit yesterday.
That was all his savings.
After one night, the man was gone.
"Old Chen, go ask around and find out why Li Weixiang was arrested."
Chen Zhi nodded, jumped off the motorcycle, and walked towards the crowd watching the scene.
Fu Chuan's hand trembled as he lit a cigarette and fell silent, gazing at the police car ahead.
A moment later, Chen Zhi returned and said, "I just found out. The law enforcement officers who took Li Weixiang away are from the Economic Investigation Department.
As for the reason for his arrest, it seems to be related to Tongda Group."
Economic Investigation!
Tongda Group!
With his sharp intuition, Fu Chuan could already sense the gravity of the situation.
He twisted the motorcycle's throttle and, with Chen Zhi, quickly left the scene.
Back at school, Fu Chuan rushed to the express delivery point in the male dormitory area and summoned all the staff for a meeting.
There were currently eight employees at the delivery point, all students from Jingda University.
Upon receiving the meeting notice, the eight quickly arrived.
Once everyone was present, Fu Chuan announced, "Brothers, I may need to take leave for a week or two weeks to go home. I'm not sure exactly how long I'll be gone.
After I leave, Old Chen will be in charge of the delivery point, and Da Xun will take over Old Chen's previous responsibilities."
After assigning the main roles, he reassigned the work for the other six people.
From receiving goods, sorting, recording, to finance and so on…
After the arrangements were made, the classmates dispersed. Chen Zhi glanced at Fu Chuan, who was smoking under a tree, and walked over to ask, "Old Fu, be honest with me.
Is your leave of absence related to Li Weixiang?"
Li Weixiang had just been arrested, and Fu Chuan was rushing to take leave, which inevitably made him suspicious.
Boss Fu no longer looked panicked. He took a deep drag of his cigarette and said with a smile, "How could that be? A relative of mine passed away, so I need to go out of town for a while.
Li Weixiang's arrest has nothing to do with me."
Chen Zhi observed Fu Chuan's calm expression, seeing no signs of deception.
"You're taking leave to go home, and Li Weixiang was arrested by the Economic Investigation Department. What about the advance payment for the packages with Tongda Express?" Old Chen asked, lighting a cigarette.
"What else can we do? We'll have to wait for the new sub-branch manager to take office and then discuss it.
Many people in our school use Tongda Express. It should only take a day or two for a new manager to be appointed. Given the current scale of our delivery point, the new manager will definitely cooperate with us. You and Da Xun can handle the negotiations then."
Fu Chuan also reminded him not to let Xu Yong snatch the deal.
Chen Zhi understood his competition with Xu Yong last semester and assured him that he would not let the rival succeed.
…
Tongda Express Group, Conference Room.
Gao Fei and President Li Yaowen looked at the documents in their hands.
After a moment, they both picked up their pens, signed their names on the documents, pressed their handprints, and affixed their official seals.
"Mr. Gao, a pleasure doing business with you!"
"Likewise, President Li!"
Gao Fei and Li Yaowen shook hands gently and then exchanged documents.
Thus, the agency for Tongda Express in Wutong District was officially taken over by Comrade Xiao Gao.
"Mr. Li, after I've sorted out the express delivery sub-stations in Wutong District, all future work matters will be handled by Xu Yong on my behalf. From now on, please notify him for company headquarters meetings and other events."
Gao Fei gestured towards Xu Yong beside him, officially introducing him.
Li Yaowen glanced at Xu Yong, who was dressed plainly and had a honest face, and nodded slightly.
Since Gao Fei had already secured the regional agency, he would be responsible for all express delivery business in Wutong District from now on.
President Li would no longer interfere with whom he promoted or how he reformed the chaotic state of Tongda Express sub-stations; he had given Gao Fei full authority.
After all contract matters and work exchanges were completed, Gao Fei left with Xu Yong, Zhang Cheng, and Zeng Keming.
Li Yaowen had wanted to invite them for lunch, but Comrade Xiao Gao politely declined.
Downstairs from Tongda Express Group.
"Old Gao, why didn't we accept President Li's invitation to dine at Wangxing Tower? A meal there costs tens of thousands of Dragon Country currency."
Zhang Cheng had been to the most high-end restaurants, and the most luxurious he had experienced was Fuqi Restaurant outside Jingda University.
Wangxing Tower was renowned throughout Kyoto; a meal there could easily cost twenty to thirty thousand Dragon Country currency.
Not only Zhang Cheng, but Xu Yong and Zeng Keming also yearned for Wangxing Tower.
Seeing their provincial appearance, Gao Fei rolled his eyes and reminded them, "My brothers, have you forgotten something?
Suyue Express will be announcing my endorsement advertisement soon!"
Everyone froze, suddenly remembering that their boss had just signed endorsement and regional agency contracts with Suyue Express that morning.
If they were to dine with Li Yaowen now, and Suyue Express happened to release Gao Fei's endorsement advertisement at the same time, the situation would be too awkward to imagine.
Tongda Group Conference Room.
After Gao Fei and his party declined the dinner invitation and left, Li Yaowen and other senior executives continued their meeting.
The Vice President, Director of the President's Office, Director of the Planning Department, and other high-level personnel nodded as they reviewed the rectification plan written by Gao Fei.
"Mr. Li, as long as the reform proceeds smoothly according to the plan, the chaos in Tongda Express in Wutong District will be completely eliminated, and the business volume will only increase in the future."
"I must say, Gao Fei is indeed astonishingly capable. If I hadn't known in advance that he wrote the rectification plan, I would have thought it was written by some industry magnate."
The executives praised Gao Fei's plan without reservation.
Vice President He Guangxu put down the document and said, "Since Gao Fei has become the agent for Tongda Express in Wutong District, why don't we take this opportunity to promote the company?
What do you all think of my suggestion?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yaowen and all the executives nodded in agreement.
With Gao Fei's online traffic and popularity, announcing him as the Wutong District agent for Tongda Express would undoubtedly become a hot topic online.
Not only would the business volume in Wutong District surge, but it might even lead to a nationwide increase in business volume.
Just as they were discussing how to leverage Gao Fei's status as an agent for publicity, the President's assistant entered the conference room, hurried to Li Yaowen, and whispered a few words.
"What?"
President Li looked shocked upon hearing the news from his assistant.
After regaining his composure, he looked at the questioning gazes of the Vice President and other executives and smiled helplessly, "The Suyue Group just released an announcement.
From today, Gao Fei will be endorsing Suyue Group for half a year."
"What?"
This time, it was the executives' turn to be shocked.
Gao Fei had just secured the regional agency for Tongda Express.
In the blink of an eye, he had also become the spokesperson for Suyue Express.
He had essentially conquered two express delivery groups.
Li Yaowen couldn't help but smile wryly; it was no wonder Gao Fei had refused the dinner invitation; he had this in store for them.
Before the executives present could respond, President Li immediately ordered his assistant, "Hurry to the operations department and have them use the company's official account to post an announcement online about Gao Fei becoming the agent for Wutong District."
"Understood, Mr. Li!"
The assistant nodded, acknowledged the order, and quickly left the conference room.
The executives listened to Li Yaowen's command, their brows furrowed.
Tongda Group and Suyue Group were competitors. Now that Gao Fei was not only an endorser for Suyue but also an agent for Tongda, he was essentially violating industry norms.
And Li Yaowen was not only not revoking Gao Fei's agency status but was also going to announce it publicly.
The executives found President Li's actions incomprehensible for a moment.
Noticing the looks from the Vice President and others, Li Yaowen sighed and only mentioned six words: "Regional agency contract."
Upon hearing the words "regional agency contract," the executives exchanged glances, then revealed a helpless smile similar to the President's.
The regional agency contract signed by Gao Fei and Tongda Group was not drafted by the group itself but by Zeng Keming and the group's legal department.
The executives had all reviewed it shortly after it was signed.
If they were to revoke Gao Fei's agent status now, it would be a breach of contract by Tongda Express, and they would have to pay him a substantial penalty.
At this moment, everyone realized why Gao Fei had brought his own lawyer to sign the contract; he had clearly anticipated this.
Even if Tongda Group wanted to breach the contract, looking at the hefty penalty, they could only honestly allow Mr. Gao to take on both express delivery companies.
…
On three major social media platforms.
After Suyue Group announced Gao Fei as their spokesperson, the buzz immediately reached its peak.
Relying on Gao Fei's top-tier online traffic and the trending topic purchases by Suyue Group,
Within ten minutes, it had already climbed into the top ten trending topics on all three platforms.
In a short period, Suyue Group's announcement received tens of thousands of likes and thousands of comments from Gao Fei's fan base.
"Congratulations, Comrade Xiao Gao, on getting your first endorsement since your debut. Wishing Suyue Group and Comrade Xiao Gao a successful cooperation and great prosperity! I'll only choose Suyue for my express deliveries from now on!"
"Comrade Xiao Gao's main career is stagnant, but his side ventures are flourishing. Mr. Gao, can you please not neglect your primary career and release more songs and good film and television works? I've been playing your songs on repeat, and I've watched your movies more than five times."
"Why did I become a fan of such a peculiar person? Other celebrities, online influencers, etc., endorse famous clothing and jewelry, but Comrade Xiao Gao is endorsing express delivery. This truly shows consideration for us student fans!"
Comments from fans poured into the comment section of Suyue Group's announcement.
However, there were also anti-fans mixed in, making sarcastic remarks below the comments.
Shortly after Suyue Group released their announcement, Tongda Express Group followed suit.
"Congratulations to Mr. Gao Fei on becoming the agent for Kyoto's Wutong District. We wish you a successful cooperation."
A brief text was accompanied by a photo of Gao Fei shaking hands with Li Yaowen.
Seeing Tongda Group's new announcement, not only the fans were bewildered, but even Suyue Express's President Xu Chenhao was stunned.
President Xu, like Li Yaowen, was first shocked, then resigned to a wry smile.
Suyue Group had already signed an endorsement and agency contract with Gao Fei. If they canceled, there would be a huge breach of contract penalty.
All one could say was that Comrade Xiao Gao was truly the best when it came to signing contracts, a god of contracts!
…
Kyoto University.
After settling the express delivery point, Fu Chuan immediately applied for half a month's leave from the college.
Just as he was packing his things to leave school, Chen Zhi rushed to find him.
Upon learning that Gao Fei had become the spokesperson for Suyue Express and had secured the agency for Tongda Express in Wutong District,
Fu Chuan, who was about to go home to hide, felt as if an invisible blow had landed on his head.
He never imagined that Gao Fei would bypass the investment and instead take over the agency and endorsement of two express delivery groups.
This was undoubtedly the biggest blow and loss for Chuanliu Express Delivery Point.
Among Chuanliu Express Delivery Point's business, Tongda Express handled the largest number of packages, and their cooperation with Suyue Express was the most stable.
Everyone knew about the feud between Gao Fei and the Entrepreneurship Competition.
Now that Gao Fei was the regional agent for Tongda Express and the spokesperson for Suyue Express,
It was a clear indication that from today onwards, Chuanliu Express Delivery Point would lose its cooperation with both express companies.
Even if Fu Chuan approached the Entrepreneurship Competition and explained the situation to the organizing committee,
Given Gao Fei's current status as an endorser and agent, the organizing committee would be powerless against him.
Chen Zhi looked at Fu Chuan, who was slumped on a stool, took a deep drag of his cigarette, and asked, "Old Fu, what do we do now? Should we try to make peace with Gao Fei?"
"Make peace?
I was the one who first proposed that Gao Fei be barred from the Entrepreneurship Competition! Do you think he'll agree if I go and beg him now?"
Fu Chuan laughed self-mockingly and continued, "Tongda and Suyue, if we can't cooperate, then so be it. It's just a loss of some money.
As long as we can still cooperate with the other three, Chuanliu Express Delivery Point can still continue to operate."
"Alright!"
Chen Zhi said no more, helped Fu Chuan carry his bag, and rode the motorcycle to take him away from school.
Outside the gate of Jingda University.
The two arrived at the taxi stand.
Just as Fu Chuan was about to get into a car, a voice that made him grit his teeth in hatred rang out.
"Oh, Senior Fu, long time no see!"